Re: lost password

[dman]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 03:06:34PM +0100, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
| On Nov 1, dman wrote:
| > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:47:54AM +0100, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
| > ...
| > | If you have completely password protected booting from your
| > | harddisk,
| > ...
| > 
| > What do you mean by this?  Can I set a separate password for each
| > entry in the menu? 
| 
| Yes, with grub-0.90 you can put a separate password line for each menu
| entry.  These password can be different for each entry.
| 
| An alternative that also works in earlier versions is the "lock"
| command, which will prevent booting an entry when the master password
| wasn't entered.

Cool.  I didn't find mention of this in any docs that I read.  Good to
know!
 
| Note that the commands for the menu entries are executed in order, so
| you should put the lock/password entries first.

It's not good to load the kernel, _then_ password the entry? <wink>


-D